NYT 🐝 Clues—Tue. 10 January, 2023

Clues for the New York Times Spelling Bee are generated daily by Ben Willenbring from his home in Brooklyn.

Letters: o  a  g  h  p  r  t

  • Total Answers: 61
  • Pangrams: 1
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! 🤣

AG

  1. AG4 — having or showing signs of eagerly awaiting something; showing urgent desire or interest synonyms—agape, anticipant, anticipatory, expectant, antsy sounds like—afar, ajar, allot, atop, awash

  2. AG5 — a gathering place; especially : the marketplace in ancient Greece sounds like—aboard, abort, accord, adore, adorn

AO

  1. AO5 — the curved part of the * that connects the ascending * with the descending * and from which the brachiocephalic artery, left carotid artery, and left subclavian artery arise —called also aortic arch sounds like—aura, chortle, court, fort, mortal

AR

  1. AR5 — the special terms or expressions of a particular group or field synonyms—cant, dialect, jargon, jive, language sounds like—target

AT

  1. AT4 — on top of synonyms—above, over sounds like—stop, top

GA

  1. GA5 — alli* sounds like—cater, greater, gutter, hater, later

GO

  1. GO4 — a person or thing taking the blame for others synonyms—fall guy, scape**, whipping boy sounds like—boat, coat, gait, gate, gauche

  2. GO4 — as in gunk, goo synonyms—crud, goo, guck, gunk, glop sounds like—coop, coupe, dupe, gap, group

  3. GO4 — a snack consisting of high-energy food (such as raisins and nuts) sounds like—warp

  4. GO4 — **ic sounds like—both, girth

  5. GO5 — used for "got to" in informal speech and in representations of such speech

GR

  1. GR5 — an old British coin worth four pennies sounds like—gloat, goat

  2. GR4 — a distilled beverage that can make a person drunk synonyms—alcohol, aqua vitae, ardent spirits, booze, bottle sounds like—frog

  3. GR6 — a naturally formed underground chamber with an opening to the surface synonyms—antre, cave, cavern, delve, grot sounds like—erotic, garter, ghetto, glottal, got

HO

  1. HO4 — dating or surviving from the distant past synonyms—age-old, aged, ancient, antediluvian, antique sounds like—hall, haul, hauler, haw, hawk

  2. HO4 — a circular strip synonyms—band, circle, eye, loop, ring sounds like—coop, coupe, dupe, heap, hip

  3. HO6 — as in hail, huzzah synonyms—bravo, hail, hallelujah, hosanna, huzzah sounds like—hurrah

  4. HO4 — a loud vocal expression of strong emotion; a vocal sound made to express scorn or disapproval; the smallest amount or part imaginable synonyms—cry, holler, howl, shout, whoop sounds like—boot, chute, hat, hate, heat

  5. HO4 — a circle dance of Romania and Israel sounds like—aura, whore

  6. HO6 — the quality of inspiring intense dread or dismay; a situation or state that causes great suffering and unhappiness; something unpleasant to look at synonyms—atrociousness, atrocity, awfulness, dreadfulness, frightfulness sounds like—borer, hauler, hawker, hearer, whore

  7. HO6 — a stew of meat and vegetables; firepot

OA

  1. OA4 — a person's solemn declaration that he or she will do or not do something synonyms—pledge, promise, troth, vow, word sounds like—earth, l**, ode, ole, owe

OP

  1. OP4 — a large elliptical laterally compressed marine bony fish (Lampris guttatus of the family Lampridae) with brilliant colors

OR

  1. OR6 — a person who makes usually formal public speeches synonyms—lecturer, speaker sounds like—altar, alter, amateur, auditor, aura

PA

  1. PA9 — troops trained and equipped to parachute from an airplane

  2. PA6 — to say after another synonyms—ditto, echo, quote, reecho, repeat sounds like—beret, carat, ferret, merit, pellet

PH

  1. PH7 — a person who uses power or authority in a cruel, unjust, or harmful way synonyms—caesar, despot, dictator, führer, oppressor sounds like—arrow, crow, faro, floe, flow

  2. PH5 — a picture created from an image recorded on a light-sensitive surface by a camera synonyms—*graph, pic, print, shot, snap sounds like—auto, boat, boater, chateau, chateaux

  3. PH6 — one who takes **raphs synonyms—lensman, **rapher, shooter, shutterbug sounds like—fatigue, fog, frog

  4. PH10 — a picture created from an image recorded on a light-sensitive surface by a camera synonyms—photo, pic, print, shot, snap

PO

  1. PO4 — a pole with a strong spring at the bottom and two footrests on which a person stands and moves along with a series of jumps sounds like—logo

  2. PO4 — to think or say that (something) is not very good or not true synonyms—brush (off), dismiss, flout, reject, scoff (at) sounds like—boo, chew, coup, dew, doo

  3. PO4 — solid matter discharged from an animal's alimentary canal synonyms—dirt, doo-doo, dropping, dung, excrement sounds like—coop, coupe, dupe, hoop, loop

  4. PO4 — lacking money or material possessions; producing inferior or only a small amount of vegetation; less plentiful than what is normal, necessary, or desirable synonyms—beggared, beggarly, broke, destitute, dirt-** sounds like—boor, lure, moor, pair, pare

  5. PO5 — a male human parent synonyms—dad, daddy, father, old man, pa

  6. PO4 — a part of a body of water protected and deep enough to be a place of safety for ships synonyms—anchorage, harbor, harborage, haven sounds like—court, fort, part, short, sort

  7. PO6 — a lazy person synonyms—deadbeat, do-nothing, drone, idler, layabout sounds like—petite, tomato

PR

  1. PR4 — a structure that holds up or serves as a foundation for something else synonyms—brace, buttress, mount, mounting, reinforcement sounds like—crop, drop, plop, pop

  2. PR10 — to bring forth offspring; to cause to be known over a considerable area or by many people synonyms—breed, multiply, procreate, reproduce, broadcast

RA

  1. RA6 — as in hardtop, wagon synonyms—convertible, fastback, hardtop, hatchback, notchback sounds like—laptop, rooftop

  2. RA7 — a friendly relationship marked by ready communication and mutual understanding synonyms—communion, fellowship, rapprochement sounds like—pore, pour, repair, report

  3. RA6 — a carnivorous medium- to large-sized bird (such as a hawk, eagle, owl, or vulture) that has a hooked beak and large sharp talons and that feeds wholly or chiefly on meat taken by hunting or on carrion : bird of prey; a usually small-to-medium-sized predatory dinosaur (such as a veloci** or deinonychus) sounds like—captor, chapter, wrapper

RO

  1. RO4 — a violent shouting; loud, confused, and usually inharmonious sound synonyms—clamor, howl, hubbub, hue and cry, hullabaloo sounds like—boar, bore, chore, core, door

  2. RO4 — a point or place at which something is invented or provided; the source from which something grows or develops; an immaterial thing upon which something else rests synonyms—cradle, font, fountain, fountainhead, origin sounds like—boot, brute, chute, fruit, hoot

  3. RO7 — a supporting and strengthening structure of the shoulder joint that is made up of the capsule of the shoulder joint blended with tendons and muscles as they pass to the capsule or across it to insert on the head of the humerus sounds like—rattler, rioter, stutter

  4. RO5 — as in gyroplane, convertiplane; as in biplane, triplane synonyms—autogiro, convertiplane, gyroplane, rotary-wing aircraft, *craft sounds like—boater, motor, voter, writer

TA

  1. TA7 — a primary root that grows vertically downward and gives off small lateral roots; the central element or position in a line of growth or development sounds like—uproot

  2. TA4 — a large-leaved tropical Asian plant (Colocasia esculenta) of the arum family grown throughout the tropics for its edible starchy corms and cormels and in temperate regions for ornament; also : its corms and cormels typically cooked as a vegetable or ground into flour sounds like—borrow, morrow, sorrow

  3. TA5 — any of a set of usually 78 playing cards including 22 pictorial cards used for fortune-telling sounds like—carrot

  4. TA6 — to mark the skin with (a **); to mark or color (the skin) with **s

TH

  1. TH6 — a person who provides information about another's wrongdoing synonyms—betrayer, canary, fink, informant, informer sounds like—rote, wrote

TO

  1. TO4 — the loose outer garment worn in public by citizens of ancient Rome; also : a similar loose wrap or a professional, official, or academic gown sounds like—yoga

  2. TO4 — a bout of prolonged or excessive drinking synonyms—bender, binge, bust, carousal, carouse sounds like—boot, chute, hoot, jute, loot

  3. TO5 — as in desire, taste synonyms—appetite, fancy, favor, fondness, like sounds like—booth, truth, tube, tune, two

  4. TO5 — a Jewish holiday observed on the 23rd of Tishri in celebration of the completion of the annual reading of the * sounds like—aura

  5. TO4 —

  6. TO6 — lack of interest or concern; physical or mental inertness synonyms—apathy, casualness, complacence, disinterestedness, disregard

  7. TO4 — a wrongful act other than a breach of contract for which relief may be obtained in the form of damages or an injunction sounds like—court, fort, port, short, sort

TR

  1. TR5 — an organized group of stage performers; the combined army, air force, and navy of a nation synonyms—company, troupe, armed forces, colors, military sounds like—droop, group

  2. TR4 — a mean or ugly old woman; abnormally frequent intestinal evacuations with more or less fluid stools synonyms—beldam, carline, crone, hag, hellcat sounds like—rot

  3. TR5 — a person's solemn declaration that he or she will do or not do something; the act or state of being engaged to be married; adherence to something to which one is bound by a pledge or duty synonyms—oath, pledge, promise, vow, word sounds like—broth, froth

agog, agora, aorta, argot, atop, gator, goat, goop, gorp, goth, gotta, groat, grog, grotto, hoar, hoop, hoorah, hoot, hora, horror, hotpot, oath, opah, orator, paratroop, parrot, pharaoh, photo, photog, photograph, pogo, pooh, poop, poor, poppa, port, potato, prop, propagator, ragtop, rapport, raptor, roar, root, rotator, rotor, taproot, taro, tarot, tattoo, throat, toga, toot, tooth, torah, toro, torpor, tort, troop, trot, troth